Water losses in this part of Rhode Island have a shape. A 1930s cape in Edgewood sits on a stone foundation that lets groundwater through every March. A Garden City ranch has a finished basement with a sump pump that quits the night the power goes out. A triple-decker on Federal Hill sends a bathtub overflow through two ceilings. A split-level in western Cranston is on a well and a septic tank. And every few winters a cold snap like February 2023 splits pipes in porches and exterior walls across the county.
Most of the housing between Edgewood and Garden City went up before anyone meant the basement to be a family room. Stone and block walls breathe, and in a wet March they weep. The Pawtuxet River crested at 20.79 feet at the Cranston gauge on March 31, 2010, and basements from Pawtuxet Village to Fiskeville filled from the floor up. Most of these houses drink from the Scituate Reservoir through Providence Water, and the shutoff at the street belongs to them. When a storm turns into a flood, the Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency posts the river forecasts and shelter openings.
When you call, we put you through to one independent local provider who handles water losses in Cranston, Providence, and the towns around them. Any agreement, price, or warranty is between you and that provider. On the first visit, the crew walks the wet rooms with a moisture meter and a thermal camera, reading behind finished paneling, up the plaster, and across the old pine floor. Those readings decide which walls open and where the air movers go. Nothing gets cut on a guess.
We serve Cranston first: Edgewood, Pawtuxet Village, Garden City, Oaklawn, Knightsville, Meshanticut, Auburn, Arlington, Eden Park, and the well-and-septic streets of western Cranston. We serve Providence from Fox Point and Federal Hill to Elmhurst, Mount Pleasant, Elmwood, Washington Park, Silver Lake, and Olneyville. We also serve East Providence, Riverside, Rumford, Centredale, North Providence, Smithfield, Johnston, and Warwick.
Providers represent their own licensing and insurance. In Rhode Island, anyone who does residential construction work for hire must be registered with the Contractors' Registration and Licensing Board, and you can look a registration up on the board's site in about a minute. Ask for a certificate of insurance and a written scope before work starts. A good provider expects both.
Call (401) 443-9638 and tell us where the water started, whether it is still coming in, and what it has reached so far. You do not need to know whether the job is extraction, drying, or sewage cleanup. The provider sorts that out on the first visit.